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One evening Blumfield, an elderly bachelor, was climbing up to his apartment--a laborious undertaking, for he lived on the sixth floor. While climbing up he thought, as he had so often recently, how unpleasant this utterly lonely life was: to reach his empty rooms he had to climb these six floors a…

The sole expiation I can make is to beg your forgiveness

Perhaps the affair had sunk somewhat into desuetude